Some events (such as a slow-moving boat) can take a while to unfold, which is why it’s useful to digitally retime your footage to speed up the action and make it easier to consume. This retimed footage can give your programme’s audience a new perspective on the action. By speeding up video you can see the ebb and flow of a city’s traffic as it flows through streets and rivers, for example.
Final Cut Pro X enables you to speed up your footage using preset increments from 2x up to 20x. You can also manually choose a custom speed that suits your subject matter, courtesy of the more intuitive Retime feature, as you’ll see in our walkthrough. This enables you to fine-tune the speed of different sections of your time-lapse sequence.